skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several things:

1. Having more SKUs is expensive, for everything from planning to inventory management to making sure you have enough shelf space at Best Buy (which you have to negotiate for). Chances are good that stores like Best Buy and Costco would only want 2 SKUs anyway, so the additional configs would be a special-order item for a small number of consumers.

2. After a certain point, adding more options actually decreases your sales. This is confusing to people who think they'd be more likely to buy if they could get exactly what they wanted, but what you're not seeing is the legions of casual consumers who are thinking about maybe getting an iPad, but would get overwhelmed by the number of options. They might spend days or weeks asking friends which model to get, debating about whether to spend extra on this upgrade or that, and eventually not buying it or getting an alternative. If you simplify the lineup to the "cheap one" and the "high end one" then people abandon most of that overhead and just decide what they want to pay.

The biggest thing tech people miss is that they're not the core consumers of these devices. The majority go to casual consumers who don't care about specifying every little thing. They just want to get the one that fits their budget and move on. Tech people are secondary.
Commercial is more expensive because it is designed for higher wear, longer tenancy times, dramatically higher utilization, and more customization.

It’s common to run wiring in conduit, use hung ceiling (with space for running lots of extra services), construct the framing out of steel and concrete (instead of wood and stucco), and electrical and HVAC demands are dramatically higher. Networking needs to be more reliable and easier to manage at scale. Electrical needs are often orders of magnitude higher. Everything from locks, to outlets, to flooring needs to be sturdier to handle the increased traffic and wear.

Even a dentists office or hair dresser will need to mount heavy chairs sturdily, pull lots of extra power, and have to worry about weird chemicals or x-rays and the like hurting other tenants.

Additionally, they’re zoned to have access to high volume transit and/or parking.

It’s not a surprise why commercial is more expensive. It’s made for a different use case.

It still is only going to be ‘good enough’ most of the time. And by ‘good enough’, that means tenants pay. Anything else is usually ‘lipstick on a pig’ as it were.
as i understand it, the theory was that it would discourage the undergraduates from hanging out in their rooms, and force them to hang out around campus and socialize, and this would be good for them.
Your Neighbors Are Retiring in Their 30s. Why Can't You?
The text presented only talks about watching oneself, it doesn't mention watching each other's recording. So it does capture some of the self-centeredness, but it's not describing social media.
While I completely agree with your point, the M chips is a series of chips. The iPad M2 is different than the MBP M2 or the MacBook Air.

It’s all just marketing to build hype.
I wouldn't say notorious. It's only become that way with the latest games. Morrowind to Oblivion was ~5 years. Oblivion to Skyrim was ~5 years. Fallout New Vegas (Obsidian) to FO4 (BGS) was 5 years.

It's really only since then that game development times have skyrocketed as much as they have.
Having to stop traffic, and then redirect it into the one emergency lane, every time 100m is finished in order to advance seems like a huge disadvantage.

If the road is anywhere close to max capacity this will cause traffic jams either way.
Resume forrest the best resume optimizer
Low level (L4) at big tech can clear $400k if the stock appreciates, otherwise L5 (“senior”, but really just mid level) will easily be there. Higher level ICs can make 7 figures.
eSpeak NG?
I have had my battery replaced on my iPad and on my kid's iPads. They did them both with no questions asked but they were pretty worn out.

If it's out of warranty they don't care that much.
Yeah, and if thinks the direction Xitter is going in is better, that is telling. On him.
As a professional EE, I know that ARM Cortex-M4 is not a chip. It's an embedded processor that is put into an SOC (which is a chip), such as the STM32-family from ST.
Whenever I see “high-school level Econ” being cited, I wonder if Econ is even taught in most American high schools, it certainly wasn’t in mine.
The M3 Pro had some downgrades compared to the M2 Pro, less performance cores and lower memory bandwidth. This did not apply to the M3 and M3 Max.
The M4 is built on the newest, best, most expensive process node (right?). They've got to amortize out those costs, and then they could work on something cheaper and less powerful. I agree that they probably won't, and that's a shame. But still, the M4 is most likely one of the best options for the best use of this new process node.
Show HN: Free AI color palette tool
"It's not you, it's me" - Xcode to the iPad
I imagine running LLMs and other AI models to produce a variety of art, music, video, etc.
From my experience, illegals weren't making $4/hr building houses, at least not in the areas I knew. You'd pull down $15 minimum and often in cash, in California in the boom times that are now 20 years ago.
This is simply false: in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq9MB9t7WlI

The court ruled that South Africa had plausible standing to bring a case defending Gazans, not that there was plausible genocide. Bringing wikipedia as a source about a very hot topic doesn't lend any support to your argument.
As long as cheaper lines of credit (or straight-up massive amounts of cash on hand) remain more available to RE corporations than regular people looking for their first home then no, building more housing will never solve the problem.

There are structural problems with the demand side that also need addressing.
this particular change took 3 hours. but generally speaking there were years of planning and other construction works that made a 3 hour switch even possible.

Japanese rail projects aren't particularly fast. The subway line that was connected in this 3 hour switch started construction in 2001, finished in 2008, and the connection made in the video was completed in 2013. https://ja-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%...

This project for example started in 2006 and opened last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Kanagawa_Rail_Link

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One other thing that makes the 3 hour window possible is the sheer amount of manpower they throw at the problem during these three hours. the US does not have a project construction industry built around swarming, but rather maintaining a lower cost small crew at all times. One reason why there is so much construction in Japan is because the government has relied on fiscal stimulus to the point where it now has the highest debt-to-GDP in the world at a rate of 263%.
Programming has a wierd way of requirering basically nothing some times, but other times you need to build the latest version of your toolchain, or you are working on some similarly huge project that takes ages to compile.

I was using my 4gb ram pinebook pro in public transport yesterday, and decided to turn of all cores except for a single Cortex-A53, to safe some battery. I had no problems for my usecase of a text editor + shell to compile for doing some SIMD programming.
Look at Ursula Vernon/T Kingfisher (at least the kid/YA focused ones). Danny Dragonbreath might be the right age range for the youngest (text + cartoon), and Minor Mage, Illuminations and Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking would be slightly older (chapter book level).

I'd hold off on the fairy tale (dark. weird) and romance ones (paladins) for a few years yet...

Mine have gone through Paolini (Eragon), Sanderson (all of them. damn he writes a lot), Wings of Fire (Tui Sutherland -- Cute, chapters, skews younger)., Scott Westerfield (Leviathian).
> the fluff about thin device

So that iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard is close to Macbook.
Agreed. In video games, "innovation" quickly becomes "niche". Microsoft actually has a wider variety of games and genres represented on the Xbox, many highly praised, but frequently gets lambasted for having no games because the the overwhelming majority of players aren't actually interested in them. Sony on the other hand is dominating, and yet its biggest titles are all somewhat similar to each other and none of them really do anything new or interesting, they simply have a lot of polish.
It's a marketing trick. They're talking about NPUs specifically, which haven't really been rolled out on the PC side.

So while they're significantly slower than even casual gaming GPUs, they're technically the fastest NPUs on the market.

It's marketing speak.
Design docs are the _mise en place_ of software development.
Amazing! Going further, I was recently wondering why we don’t just build two-layer (or higher) freeways in areas that have heavy congestion. “Express” lanes with fewer exits perhaps, to minimize transitions if that’s a problem.
That reminds me of the Soul Kitchen movie when a client of a fancy restaurant asked for a hot gazpacio. The waiter escalated to the chef who calmly explained to the client what a gazpacio is. After the client insisted, shouting at him, the chef refused driving his knife into the client's table.

https://youtu.be/rQ61MfRBSQg
a 7" tablet was a really cool form factor back in the day when phones were 4".

but when 6.7" screens on phones are common, what really is the point of a 7" tablet?
I will settle for: you can connect 2 monitors to iPad and select audio device sound is going through. If can run IntelliJ and compile rust on the iPad, I would promise to upgrade to the new iPad Pro as soon as it is released every time.
LLaMA 3 tokens/second please, that's what we care about.
You’re calling $3,600 worth of GPUs “quite common for hobbyist use” and then comparing an iPad to a $40,000 AI-centric GPU.
I am about to get battery backup and solar installed in an already electrified house. Seems like the best thing I can currently do to reduce my carbon footprint. However, I can't help wonder if I should be worried about the finite resources used to create the batteries and the impact of the waste created when the batteries reach their end of life. Is this a sustainable model for energy storage?
No, you're actually reading it wrong. Its a unit of power, not energy. You can follow the link on that line and see the EIA also using watts.

It's talking about the ability to supply power to the grid, not how long it can supply that power. It's arguable how useful a measure that is but they're certainly using it correctly. IMO they're also talking about it in a reasonable way- capacity and power are pretty closely related for batteries, and the ability to pick up demand is critical to handling instability.
If you aren't interested enough to even know what you're talking about why do you make such specific claims about it? Fortnite is completly different from counterstrike. For example counterstrike is a team based game and Fortnite can be played single player. And counterstrike has not had a new release in which current players must buy the new game for 11 years much less every six months. Also, you are wrong when you say you are "not saying they're good or bad" when you said making the supposed re-releases of these games is like putting a "fresh coat of lipstick on the same pig."
> Also, Wayve AI seems to be split between London, MTV, and Vancouver.

I spent a few minutes but have no idea what MTV means in this context.
We're seeing massive use of drones in the UA/RU war. I wonder how those change these points?
Consider it an arched eyebrow, not offense.

> Physicists are renowned for their hair, but why stop there.

That's a lark for layfolk. If I wanted to participate in beauty pageants, I'd have done that. But I chose discrete math, and lately its application to physics. But I find that I'm repeating myself, so I'll stop here.
Study reveals what carbon damage would cost if corps paid for their emissions
Cryptocurrencies aren't really "Web3" though are they. Web3 is all the absolute rot that people have tried to glue onto a blockchain just so they can tick a buzzword box. NFTs are still a scam, even in Argentina.
A major factor causing increased demand for housing that's rarely discussed is the dramatic drop in the number of people per household.

Consider a hypothetical city with a population of 100,000:

1960: average household size: 3.63 persons

1960 housing units needed at 3.63 persons/household: 27,548 units

2020: average household size: 2.28 persons

2020 housing units needed at 2.28 persons/household: 43,860 units

So even with zero population growth, the city would need 59% more housing units.

That increase in demand drives up the price per housing unit.

At the same time, the decrease in the number of people per unit reduces each household's earning power, and makes it much more difficult for that household to afford the cost of housing.

No wonder few can afford to buy their own place.
> Did they just fire it to Israel for no reason?

No, they had a very good reason: They hate Jews and do not believe Jews have any right to national sovereignty in their own land.
>There are better examples than this one to complain about the justice system.

True, but why bring the Count of Mostly Crisco into this?
That's easily remedied - axes and specialized entry tools can be used for exiting.

Yeah, if it doesn't meet the legal definition of a bedroom, it can't be listed as one. That's partially why there are so few interior rooms - lower property value vs if it was a bedroom (but mainly consumer demand for windows).
Big heavy batteries for my home would be fine. I want big heavy batteries for my house, but they are still so expensive right now. The Anker batteries seems like one of the best deals around to do a home battery system right now, but I get about 2kWh/$. When I bought my IONIQ6 I got about 2kWh/$, and it came with the rest of a car!
I really don't understand the economics of home batteries right now.
If the building's dense enough then you have a built-in set of regular customers. Especially if, say, you're a restaurant in the middle of a building with super-tiny kitchens in the apartments, like the ones described in the link.
Neoliberal economics: The road to freedom or authoritarianism?
Causation goes both ways. Intelligent, educated, and well-paid Hacker News posters often don't understand the cloud of chaos, crime, poor decision-making, and deflected blame that hovers over the lives of many poor people. Section 8 landlords understand that while such people may comprise a minority of their tenants (or not), it only takes one to ruin a building and the surrounding neighborhood.

On a certain level this is common knowledge, reflected in the real estate markets of all big American cities. Dirt-cheap housing stock can be found in large swaths of Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, et cetera. It's cheap because even the most desperate families would rather live anywhere else, around anyone else.
Think the play is "consumer AI". Would you really write code on an iPad? And if you do, do you use an external keyboard?
WWDC is a month away. I’m hoping for some iPadOS updates to let people actually take advantage of the power they put in these tablets. Apple has often released new hardware before showing off new OS features to take advantage of it.

I know people have been hoping for that for a long time, so I’m not holding my breath.
That's interesting - I'll have to explore HTMX and TailWindCSS further - one thing that has held me back is just looking at the HTML source, with all the odd tags, looks messy. I know that's an emotional reaction and not a technical one, but I do appreciate looking at code which just looks clean and neat to me...

I've been learning React / Django / Bootstrap (open to ideas on that, but it's just been "there" for me) / SQLite, Postgres / Stripe for payment, Docker, and hosting on AWS and exploring Fly.IO for hosting. I haven't dug into APIs, but curious your thoughts DRF / FastAPI / Django-ninja).

I know this is a Rails thread, so there might be a better place to have a discussion about it...

Thanks for your insights!
Musicians, for the purpose of reading sheet music. Wrote about this here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40286085#40288121
Serde? Clap? It’s not the objectively best crate, just one you like a lot and think is well designed. Both of those are “wow, this is way better and yet simpler than every language I’ve used before” crates for me.
Yes totally dumb to optimize for where 90% of the people are. I’m the one that’s dumb and selfish…
I stopped reading because it became a larger part of school. I strongly disliked school, so reading was a part of the thing I strongly disliked. Really, anything they tried to force was soured on me for a long time.

My disdain for school started around 9 or 10
A home is considered the new hotness, and if you don't own one, you're not financially smart for some reason. At least this is according to the hivemind at /r/personalfinance. Meanwhile, there are very legitimate reasons not to own a property.

Methinks people buying right before COVID at rock bottom interest rates has clouded the judgement of many. This is not a sure fire road to success right now, I can tell you that much.
Hahah yes
> You’ll have to go all the way to Sudan to find a similar number,

Syria was a civil war with who knows how many dead, its over half a million easily. Iraq I'm not an expert on but parts of what's happened and still is happening there seems like a civil war to me, number of dead is huge.

How is the Israeli-Gaza war a civil war btw?

If you don't look at the artificial definition of civil wars, the region is even more violent with millions more dead in conflicts - Yemen / Saudi Arabia, Iran-Iraq etc.
You've probably already seen these, but just in case:

https://www.mangaclassics.com
One thing I do know is that all these people talk about this "nice place for yourself" instead of "being packed in like sardines" but then the people in the former also will talk about some loneliness epidemic etc etc.

I grew up in various times in a rural place with all sorts of animals where it was just me and my brother for miles and I also grew up later in a city where there were so many kids we would self-organize into all sorts of games and sports.

Personally, the rural place was great and the urban place was great, but the suburban place has neither adventure nor abundance of playmates. Hundreds of nearby families is the absolute dream!
Not the person you are asking, but I do have GI issues due to the acidity with coffee. It can cause reflux, ulcers, and more for people if they are sensitive to the added acidity.
FromSoft is putting out some really interesting experimental bangers too. If you haven't tried the new Armored Core, I highly recommend it -- it's a great bridge from a beloved-but-niche genre (mech games) toward the mainstream. It's small, focused to a point, tells the story it wants to tell and gets out of your way. I'm still thinking about it 9 months later...

Sounds like this sort of risky niche title would earn a studio closure if it came from Microsoft's corner.
Meanwhile the mac mini is still on M2
The most environmentally friendly thing to do is to keep your A12Z for as long as you can, ignoring the annual updates. And when the time comes that you must do a replacement, get the most up to date replacement that meets your needs. Change your mindset - you are not required to buy this one, or the next one.
> That's easily remedied - axes and specialized entry tools can be used for exiting.

You keep an axe in your bedroom?
Agreed, but I still think this is a useful tool for building intuition about a subset of problems gradient descent faces. The animation in the readme is similar to what I picture in my head for local minima for instance.
Meanwhile has anyone here driven El Camino Real from Palo Alto south to Sunnyvale? One of the worst roads that continues to get worse for years now.
And except for a few people who grabbed Allodial Title (New Mexico had it for a bit) you still pay property tax even when you own the land, and that can get moderately significantly high.
The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
QR codes use a series of (mode, length, characters) segments - a given code can switch between modes. I think for QR codes the length encoding is mode-specific.
Fourthing Chezmoi. I tried so many dotfiles tools and it's the only one that does just enough, gets out of my way, and "just works".

Being able to run `chezmoi diff` and `chezmoi apply` are game changers.
If they maintain that pace, it will start compounding incredibly quickly. If we round to 2 years vs 2.5 years, after just a decade you're an entire doubling ahead.
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I would think that merely repositioning can be done overnight.
This is only partly true. Because low-temperature extraction is much less efficient, it requires a much longer immersion/exposure time than hot extraction at ambient or slightly higher pressure. One of the effects of this type of cold extraction is the oxidation of the coffee, which is much greater with this method, giving the coffee an oxidised taste which, although not bad in itself (nothing is set in stone about personal taste), is not to everyone's liking. For my taste, I prefer to make it hot (with a higher coffee/water ratio than usual) and cool it down by diluting it with water or ice.
I always wonder if fewer new small towns and cities are being created as well. It doesn't get talked about much because it's harder to discuss something that doesn't exist.

People start new businesses all the time. What does is take for people to start new cities?
Raging Ignorantly at the Internet Fixes Nothing
The iPad is an excellent form factor for using on aeroplanes. I wish my iPad would let me play Fallout 4. That, with a normal Xbox controller, would be just perfect for passing the time while flying.
Plenty of interstates have a two-tier lane system, one tier with lots of exits, and an expressway tier with fewer exits/entrances. That is not a new innovation.

example: https://i4express.com/
In all seriousness, you're right. Sandboxing Xcode but making it fully featured is surely a nightmare engineering problem for Apple. However, I feel like some kind of containerized macOS running in the app sandbox could be possible.
Nah, GP is off their rocker. For the workloads in question the SOC's power draw is a rounding error, low single-digit percent.
16GB RAM ought to be enough for anybody! (Tim Cook)
Why is chacha8 used instead of a HW-accelerated AES block cipher (e.g AES-GCM) when that's available? Also AES-GCM only requires 12 bytes of random IV vs chacha8's 32 bytes not that that actually matters.
Devv.ai has been the best code search engine for me for a while. Direct support of searching the web is definitely a right move. Looking forward to it
Manipulate PDFs with macOS Preview > Annotate Feature
> Call me crazy, but I want all that power in a 7" tablet. I like 7" tablets most because they feel less clunky to carry around and take with you.

iPhone Pro Max screen size is 6.7" and the the upcoming iPhone 16 Pro Max is rumored to be 6.9" with 12GB of RAM. That's your 7" tablet right there.

The thing is - You're an extreme edge case of an edge case. Furthermore, I'm guessing if Apple did roll out a 7" tablet, you'd find some other thing where it isn't exactly 100% perfectly meeting your desired specifications. For example, Apple is about to release a high powered 6.9" tablet-like device (the iPhone 16 Pro Max) but I'm guessing there's another reason why it doesn't fit your needs.

Which is why companies like Apple ignore these niche use cases and focus on mainstream demands. The niche demands always gain a lot of internet chatter, but when the products come out they sell very poorly.